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CMM TIG Week: Multisite Longitudinal Studies in Education by Edith Gozali-Lee

Hello, I am Edith Gozali-Lee, a research scientist at Wilder Research. I work primarily on research and evaluation projects related to education. I am currently working on a multi-site, longitudinal study of an early childhood initiative. The study includes three cohorts of school-based preschool program children in ten schools, five cohorts of community-based child care children in homes and centers, and comparison children with and without prior preschool experience. The study follows children from preschool to third grade. That’s a lot to track, making good data collection critical from the start.

Welcoming Elizabeth DiLuzio to the AEA365 team! by Sheila B Robinson

Hello AEA365 readers! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365 Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. Today I’d like to welcome Elizabeth DiLuzio to our team of volunteer curators! Elizabeth lives in New York City, and is currently the Manager of Evaluation and Strategy for Good Shepherd Services, but she’s also an independent evaluation consultant so she has …

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Labor Day Week: Deepening our cultural understanding and competency by Stephanie Evergreen

My name is Stephanie Evergreen and Dr. Nicole Bowman has changed my experience as a member of AEA. She’s changed yours, too, even if you don’t know it. Dr. Nicole Bowman, the 2018 Robert Ingle AEA Service Award recipient, has worked publicly and behind the scenes to push evaluators to grow their cultural competency, specifically and critically …

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A Look at Language Week: Words That Make Me Cringe by Nora Murphy Johnson

Hi! My name is Nora Murphy Johnson, a Creative Evaluator and co-founder of TerraLuna Collaborative and the Developmental Evaluation Institute. Our blog posts this week are written by Minnesota evaluators working in justice and equity spaces, focus on words–words to retire, discard, or include. I am writing about words that make me cringe because the …

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AZENet Week: Renewing Your Strategies for Meaningful Collaboration by Jenny McCullough Cosgrove

I’m Jenny McCullough Cosgrove (independent evaluator). I believe collaborative and participatory work in evaluation projects leads to rich learning. There are many ways to work with various stakeholders to support engagement and use in evaluation work and I am always adding strategies to my #Eval toolbox. Here are a few of my favorite ways to …

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LA RED TIG Week: Evaluar con confianza es mejorar / Evaluation with trust is improvement by Susana Morales

My name is Susana Morales and I am the Co-Founder of Communities in Collaboration | Comunidades en Colaboración. I am also a member of La Red TIG, YFE TIG, and the IC TIG and locally support the San Francisco Bay Area Evaluators and Applied Researchers group. During this short piece, I want to discuss working …

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Using evaluation methods to improve program outcomes by Nicky Grist

Hi, I’m Nicky Grist of the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund (CFE Fund). When I read that AEA members are interested in “how evaluators collaborate with stakeholders to apply findings of the evaluation to improving their initiative,” I knew I had to share the story of my most successful evaluation project ever. In 2016 the …

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THE WISCONSIN IDEA IN ACTION: Graduate Students as Scholar-Evaluators in the Field by Gwendolyn Baxley and Larry D. Brown Jr.

What’s up! We are Gwendolyn Baxley and Larry D. Brown Jr., doctoral students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and evaluators as part of the Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative Clinic. The Clinic responds to the small-scale evaluation needs by matching trained graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with schools and education-focused community organizations in Dane County. …

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Sara Vaca on Creativity and Evaluation Part II

“Creativity is intelligence having fun”, Albert Einstein. Greetings! I’m Sara Vaca, independent consultant (EvalQuality.com) and recently appointed Creative Advisor of this blog. To start contributing I thought of writing some posts about how creativity intertwines with evaluation. This is Part II of a two-part post. You can find Part I here. Lesson Learned: Evaluation is …

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Sara Vaca on Creativity and Evaluation Part I

“Creativity is intelligence having fun”, Albert Einstein. Greetings! I’m Sara Vaca, independent consultant (EvalQuality.com) and recently appointed Creative Advisor of this blog. To start contributing I thought of writing some posts about how creativity intertwines with evaluation. This is Part I of a two-part post. Lesson Learned: Evaluation is a rigorous, systematic transdiscipline. However, evaluators …

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